Institutional Ethnography As Practice

by Smith, Dorothy E.; Campbell, Marie L.; DeVault, Marjorie L.; Diamond, Tim; Eastwood, Lauren; Griffith, Alison; McCoy, Liza; Mykhalovskiy, Eric; Pence, Ellen; Smith, George W.; Smith, Dorothy E.; Turner, Susan; Weatherbee, Douglas; Wilson, Alex

• ISBN13: 9780742546769
• ISBN10: 0742546764
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-15
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In this edited collection, institutional ethnographers draw on their field research experiences to address different aspects of institutional ethnographic practice. As institutional ethnography embraces the actualities of people's experiences and lives, the contributors utilize their research to reveal how institutional relations and regimes are organized. As a whole, the books aims to provide readers with an accurate overview of what it is like to practice institutional ethnography, as well as the main varieties of approaches involved in the research.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
Dorothy E. Smith
Part I: Institutional Ethnographic Data: Interview, Observation, and Text	13	(76)
Institutional Ethnography: Using Interviews to Investigate Ruling Relations	15	(30)
Marjorie L. DeVault
Liza McCoy
``Where Did You Get the Fur Coat, Fern?'' Participant Observation in Institutional Ethnography	45	(20)
Timothy Diamond
Incorporating Texts into Ethnographic Practice	65	(24)
Dorothy E. Smith
Part II: Analysis	89	(74)
Institutional Ethnography and Experience as Data	91	(18)
Marie L. Campbell
Keeping the Institution in View: Working with Interview Accounts of Everyday Experience	109	(18)
Liza McCoy
Constructing Single Parent Families for Schooling: Discovering an Institutional Discourse	127	(12)
Alison I. Griffith
Mapping Institutions as Work and Texts	139	(24)
Susan Marie Turner
Part III: Inquiry, Projected and Accomplished	163	(64)
A Research Proposal	165	(16)
George W. Smith
Eric Mykhalovskiy
Douglas Weatherbee
Making the Institution Ethnographically Accessible: UN Document Production and the Transformation of Experience	181	(18)
Lauren E. Eastwood
U.S. Legal Interventions in the Lives of Battered Women: An Indigenous Assessment	199	(28)
Alex Wilson
Ellen Pence
References	227	(14)
Index	241	(18)
About the Editor and Contributors	259